Abstract of "A Characterization of Monotonicity with Plural Quantifiers"
Abstract of "On Scope Dominance With Monotone Quantifiers"
Gilad Ben-Avi and
Yoad Winter
In Proceedings of MOL8 (2003)
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We characterize pairs of monotone generalized quantifiers Q1 and Q2 that give
rise to an entailment relation between their two relative scope construals. This
result is used for identifying entailment relations between the two scopal
interpretations of simple sentences of the form NP1-V-NP1. The general
characterization that we give turns out to cover more examples of such entailments
besides the familiar type where the NPs are headed by some and every.
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